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Anosh Irani is the author of The Cripple and His Talismans.

Anosh was born and brought up in Bombay, India. He moved to Vancouver, British Columbia in 1998. His first full-length play, The Matka King, premiered in October 2003 at the Arts Club Theatre in Vancouver, and a new play, Manja’s Circus, has been commissioned by the National Arts Centre in Ottawa. Irani was featured in Quill & Quire as one of a handful of young Canadian “writers to watch.” The Cripple and His Talismans is Irani’s first novel.

“Anosh Irani crafts a story as black and seductive as a desert night.” —The Globe and Mail.

Prepare to enter a world where norms of human behaviour, morality—even the rules governing time and gravity—are set on their heads.

The Cripple and His Talismans takes place in Bombay, India, and it begins and ends with a search for the narrator’s severed arm. Fables and clues lead the narrator to a master of the underworld named Baba Rakhu. Gradually, Baba reveals the stroy of the lost arm along with a new way to understand suffering in the world.

By turns absurb, funny, violent and tender, The Cripple and His Talismans is a magic-realist journey through Bombay’s gritty and chaotic underbelly, and through layers of masterful storytelling.